Quartering
['kwɔːt(ə)rɪŋ] or ['kwɔrtɚ]
Definition
(noun.) dividing into four equal parts.
(noun.) living accommodations (especially those assigned to military personnel).
(noun.) a coat of arms that occupies one quarter of an escutcheon; combining four coats of arms on one shield usually represented intermarriages.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quartter
(a.) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object.
(a.) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
(n.) A station.
(n.) Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters.
(n.) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
(n.) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
(n.) A series of quarters, or small upright posts. See Quarter, n., 1 (m) (Arch.)
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Examples
- That's quartering, said Jerry. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The quartering one, eh? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The quartering of soldiers upon the colonists was a great nuisance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I wondered peevishly why they couldn't put her anywhere else instead of quartering her on me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- As to his blood, I suppose the family quarterings are three cuttle-fish sable, and a commentator rampant. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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